“Scorribande” e archeomorfologia nel territorio dell’antica Laos,

The paper defines an approach intended to evaluate the influence of depositional and post-depositional processes of archaeological evidences detectable on erosional palaeosurfaces. The portion of the territory was surveyed in the “Archeologia dei Paesaggi nel contesto territoriale della Valle del Lao” project, a collaboration between the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Centre Jean Bérard of Naples and the Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale of the University of Salerno. The investigation have been intended to help define times and shapes of human occupation of the Lao Valley (4th century B.C.-7th A. D.), area characterized by the presence of a wide coastal alluvial plain in which flow the Lao River and the Abatemarco stream, bounded on the north by Capo Scalea and on the south by Punta Cirella.